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Liberian authorities locate all 17 ‘runaway Ebola patients’

World Health Organisation says 1,229 people have now died of virus in four countries

Health inspection officers help a mock patient get into a negative pressure isolation stretcher during a drill to demonstrate the procedures of transporting an Ebola victim at Shenzhen Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureauin China. Photograph: Reuters.

Authorities in Liberia have found all 17 suspected Ebola patients who fled a quarantine centre in Monrovia at the weekend and transferred them to another clinic, the information minister said today.

“We are glad to confirm that all of the 17 individuals have been accounted for and have now been transferred to JFK Ebola specialist treatment centre,” Lewis Brown said.

He also said that three infected African doctors who had received the experimental Ebola drug Zmapp were showing “remarkable signs of improvement”, quoting an assessment by the doctor overseeing their treatment.